Atwan: Resistance pressures forced the occupiers to show off by sending aid to Gaza.
Abdul Bari Atwan, editor of the trans-regional newspaper Rai al-Youm and a prominent analyst of the Arab world, dedicated the new editorial of this electronic newspaper to the recent statements of Dr. Khalil al-Hayyah, head of the Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip, and wrote: Our great fighter, Khalil al-Hayyah, head of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, a member of the movement’s political bureau, and head of its negotiating team abroad, deserves to receive a medal of courage and merit for the content of his video speech that was delivered on Sunday night.
The courageous and frank speech of the head of Hamas in the Gaza Strip
Atwan added: Dr. Khalil al-Hayyah announced in this speech his withdrawal from the farcical show of indirect negotiations with the Zionist occupation regime mediated by Egypt, Qatar, and the so-called United States. These negotiations have continued for 22 months, without producing even a loaf of bread or a carton of powdered milk for infants in the Gaza Strip. Khalil al-Hayyah said in precise words that continuing negotiations under conditions of siege, genocide, and starvation of our children, women, and people in the Gaza Strip is of no use.
The article continues: Dr. Khalil al-Hayyah called on the Arab and Islamic nations to march towards Palestine, to surround the Israeli embassies and to break the siege of Gaza. In our opinion, what is most important of all the above is not the unprecedented power of this speech; but its frankness without any fear or flattery, especially when he spoke about the airdrop of food aid and said: “We reject the ridiculous spectacles called airdrops, because they are nothing more than false propaganda to hide the crime.”
The Palestinian writer clarified: Dr. Khalil al-Hayyah said that every five airdrops of aid are equivalent to the load of a small truck and that whoever wants to end the famine in Gaza must open the crossings, especially the Rafah crossing, which has become a crossing of death.
Resistance in the Gaza Strip Continues Despite Hunger and Massacre
Atwan continued: The Islamic resistance movements in the Gaza Strip, especially Hamas and Islamic Jihad, continue to resist the occupying enemy from under the rubble and from the depths of the tunnels despite hunger and massacre, and there is not a day that goes by when resistance fighters do not target snipers, special forces, tanks and vehicles of the Zionist regime’s army and inflict heavy human casualties in terms of killed and wounded. These courageous and heroic operations, at a time when the Arab regimes have completely surrendered, reveal the extent of the weakness and failure of the Zionist regime’s army and its authorities; where they were forced to allow the entry of aid, albeit limited and ridiculous, either through airdrops or by very cautiously opening crossings for a few trucks.